El.stutter~ + el.chopper~: why do they often crash Max?

Hello – i just downloaded Eric Lyon’s library of el objects, and am exploring the capabilities of el.stutter!~ and el.chopper~. These often crash Max for me. I thought it might be because I need to turn off DSP before changing files in a buffer~, and that has helped, but even while doing that, I still have Max crash while using these objects. Why might this be and what can I do to prevent this?

That’s a good bug report. The bashfest~ in the next LyonPotpourri release will not instantiate unless you specify a buffer, which of course prevents the bug you mentioned. I’ll be taking a closer look at what happens when buffers are switched or invalid in several of my externals. Since I rarely change buffers after instantiation, I rarely encounter this kind of bug unless someone else reports it.